Speeches

Ian C. Lucas – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian C. Lucas on 2015-12-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of passengers using Manchester Airport in (a) 2015, (b) 2020 and (c) 2025.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The last aviation forecasts made by the Department for Transport were produced in January 2013. These gave the following forecasts of passengers using Manchester Airport for the central demand case:

(a) 2015 : 19.5 million

(b) 2020 : 22.1 million

(c) 2025 : 25.0 million